03-23-2006, 07:08 PM
I think that sinking tax revenues also had something to do with it. We see sinking population levels, marginal agricultural areas being left. recent claims of reforestation have been refuted at least for Britain, but in the Lower Rhine area we see most people have left due to rising sea levels and colder temperatures.
I'm not sure if rising equipment costs were crippling the state finances (but state production control (fabricae) and less complicated equipment may point in that direction. I never read evidence about it, but it is generally accepted among archaeologists that federates and temporary allies were sometimes (often?) equipped with Roman arms & armour.
I'm not sure if rising equipment costs were crippling the state finances (but state production control (fabricae) and less complicated equipment may point in that direction. I never read evidence about it, but it is generally accepted among archaeologists that federates and temporary allies were sometimes (often?) equipped with Roman arms & armour.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
